Susan Winter

Awarding Winning
Vermont Wildlife Artist
& Lifetime Avid Outdoorswoman

  As a native of Vermont, Susan grew up with a deep seated passion  for the outdoors. As a young girl she spent many happy days fishing,  hunting and exploring nature with her family. Memories include as a  little girl catching wild brook trout from tumbling mountain streams to  in her teenage years angling for 40 inch northern pike and silver  acrobatic .
     Susan's love of nature and the natural world shows in her work.  When describing her art Winter says: "I try to create a 'Living being'  and try to stay away from that 'Manufactured look'   Winter demands  detail in all her work using only acrylic 'hand painted' brush nature.  

     As a youngster at age 12 Susan sold her 1st picture  in the 1970's for $225.00. While in high school Susan attended St.  Michaels College under art scholarship. In her senior year of high  school the young artist had the special honor of being chosen to  represent Vermont with her water color painting of migrating waterfowl  over Lake Champlain, in a year long   

congressional art exhibit at our  nations' capital in Washington, D.C.
    A 15 year hiatus from her art followed until in late 1998 Susan began to pick up the brushes and clay again.

Her first sculpture made for public show came in April of 1999,  entitled "Eastern Brook Trout", a wood carving that captured blue  ribbons from the prestigious "World Fish Carving Championships" in  Springfield, Ill. Other blue ribbons followed in shows such as the Ward  World bird & fishing competition in Ocean City, Md. among others.

     In painting Susan's national debut came in the form of a Limited  Edition print entitled "Brookie In The Brush" which earned "highest bid"  honors for a wildlife print at auction at Trout Unlimited's 2000 and  2002 National conventions. In 2003 it became the state of Iowa's  Conservation Trout Stamp.   More habitat stamps followed including one more for Iowa with a  whitetail deer, and two for New York Sate in the years '06 through '08  with a wild turkey & big whitetail buck. 

Other projects include illustrating for Vermont Fish & Wildlife's  educational poster on the black bear. In '03 Winter's most gratifying  work of her career came with an invitation to restore wildlife exhibits  for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. 

Susan's other vocation is helping take care of fishing derbies since  1980. Her favorite to support is children's derbies because Susan says:  "It is a chance to give something back to these kids ... A quality of  life in the outdoors that I was so lucky enough to have had a child  growing up." Susan has been a passionate supporter of many other conservation related hunting & fishing charities since 1979.